Compass Datacenters, a Dallas, Texas company that builds “modular” data center buildings, has paid $2.1 million for a 16-acre site near Research Triangle Park where it plans to build one of its first projects in the U.S.

The company has already received planning approval from Durham County.

At each building in Durham, Curtis said, 10,000 square feet of raised-floor space for servers and equipment would be available. The building pods could either be leased or sold to local companies needing data storage space, and each would have its own prefabricated power system to support the servers.

A subsidiary of Compass Datacenters bought the land parcels from two seller groups, according to Durham County deed records.

It paid $1.9 million for an existing 28,000-square-foot building that’s slated for demolition and nine acres of land. The seller was Diane T. Pounders of Chapel Hill.

Compass also purchased an adjacent 7 acres of land from Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina, which is the owner and management firm that oversees development within Research Triangle Park. It paid $207,500 to the foundation.

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